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• #Kindle reader for pc not responding for mac os x

That book may be shared with people on the same account who are going to sight-read it…a really nice feature. That means a blind person can have a computer read a Kindle book out loud to them.

Those screen readers have not worked with Kindle for PC.

#Kindle reader for pc not responding for mac os x

These are much more sophisticated than the built-in screen readers in operating systems (like Narrator in Windows and Voiceover for Mac OS X and iOS). Many people with print disabilities have programs on their computers called “screen readers” that read out loud to them the words on the screen. That enables Kindle for PC to work with screen readers like JAWS (Job Access With Speech) and NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access). That includes on a computer with assistive technology that will normally read whatever is on the screen. Text-to-speech has not been available in the free Kindle reader apps. There has recently been a major step forward, even though it is not on the Kindles themselves. I think the publishers would sell more books by allowing it than they gain in audiobook sales by blocking it. I also think it is a bad business decision, personally.

While it is legal from what I understand, I do think it disproportionately disadvantages the disabled. Thanks so much to PF in the Amazon Kindle community for the heads-up on this!Īs my regular readers know, I don’t like publishers blocking text-to-speech access in their Kindle store books.

Flash! Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin makes all books TTS enabled for the print disabled